Scheme for case reporting / arranged by W.H. Allchin.

  • Allchin, William Henry, Sir, 1846-1911.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Scheme for case reporting / arranged by W.H. Allchin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    NEURO-MUSCULAR SYSTEM. The normal temperament, disposition, manner, character, habits, tastes, degree of intelligence, articulation, &c., and also any habitual defects or peculiarities in motor or sensory power must be first ascertained and recorded. 1. MENTAL STATE. Consciousness; impaired (dreamy, dazed), complete loss of (stupor, narcosis, coma), ability to be roused with immediate relapse into partial or complete unconsciousness, exalta- tion of or mental excitement, perversion of (incoherent rambling—delusions fixed or transient—illusions—hallucinations— delirium, wandering, low, muttering, violent, wild, raving, persistent, transient, only nocturnal, accompanied with picking at bed-clothes or getting out of bed, possibility of interruption by questioning with coherent and rational reply thereto). Fit of unconsciousness; onset (sudden, gradual), how occupied at onset, degree of (absolute, partial, can or cannot be roused), occurrence and character of aura, associated symptoms (pallor, lividity or flushing of face—tonic or clonic spasm of face, trunk, or limbs, cry, biting of tongue, rotation of head, coniugate deviation of eyes, nystagmus, condition of pupils [vide p. 51], degree of sensibility of conjunctiva), symptoms on and after re- covery of consciousness (crying, laughing, screaming—para- lysis—spasm). Ecstasy. Coma-vigil. Catalepsy. Trance. Disposition and conduct (calm, placid, depressed, melancholic, hypo- chondriacal, apathetic, anxious, irritable, fretful, peevish, reserved, hopeful, unusually gay, excited, irascible, violent, morose, suspicious, indiff'erent, emotional, easily moved to crying or laughter—manner altered, unusual, strange, odd, eccentric, voluble, refusal of food or to go to bed or to get up, soliloquism, inclination to exaggeration, lying, thieving, arson, dirty habits, &c.). Memory ; unusually good, generally or for special subjects— defective, all degrees of, generally or for special subjects, to total loss of—specially impaired in respect to recent circumstances—errors of memory.
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